Top 100 Quotes About Elinor
#1. It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.
Jane Austen
#2. Elinor ... whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding and coolness of judgment ... her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them.
Jane Austen
#3. Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
Marianne Dashwood
Jane Austen
#4. Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye.
Cathleen Schine
#5. You sound like Darth Vader," I say bluntly. Elinor doesn't even flinch. "So be it," she says, and sips her water. That is totally a Darth Vader thing to say. Next she'll be ordering the destruction of a thousand innocent Jedi younglings.
Sophie Kinsella
#6. Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.
Jane Austen
#7. To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..
Agatha Christie
#8. Yes, everything will be all right, thanks to Elinor! She could have sung and danced (not that she was much of a dancer and she was sitting in a car).
Cornelia Funke
#9. Elinor, for shame!" said Marianne, "money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned.
Jane Austen
#10. Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.
Jane Austen
#11. Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.
Stevie Smith
#12. Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?
Jane Austen
#13. How's our blue rose?" the doctor asked.
...
"If you really want to know, I feel sorry for the poor thing," Elinor went on. "All wrapped up that way. I'm starting to think there's no point in being a rose if you're tied up and covered with burlap.
Alice Hoffman
#14. They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They've never seen a battle, they've never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.
George R R Martin
#15. How ridiculous that water ran out of your eyes when your heart hurt. Tragic heroines in books tended to be amazingly beautiful. Not a word about swollen eyes or a red nose. "Crying always gives me a red nose," thought Elinor. "I expect that's why I'll never be in any book.
Cornelia Funke
#16. Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.
Jane Austen
#17. Elinor placed all that was astonishing in this way of acting to his mother's account; and it was happy for her that he had a mother whose character was so imperfectly known to her, as to be the general excuse for every thing strange on the part of her son.
Jane Austen
#18. ... Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.
Jane Austen
#19. Elinor, I have been cruelly used; but not by Willoughby.
Jane Austen
#20. And Elinor, in quitting Norland and Edward, cried not as I did. Even now her self-command is invariable. When is she dejected or melancholy? When does she try to avoid society, or appear restless and dissatisfied in it?
Jane Austen
#21. Only to be expected!' Elinor's voice almost cracked. Belligerent as a Bull Terrier, she marched up to him.
Cornelia Funke
#22. Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.
-Elinor Dashwood
Jane Austen
#23. You wanted a blue rose," Brock said. "Didn't you? Wasn't that the whole point?"
"Doesn't everyone want what they cannot have?"(Elinor)
"Here's what I think: it's the quest that matters."(Brock)
Alice Hoffman
#24. I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal
about twenty-five, a witty control freak. I like her but I can see how she would drive you mad. She's just the sort of person you'd want to get drunk, just to make her giggling and silly.
Emma Thompson
#25. Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Jane Austen
#26. Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?
Cornelia Funke
#27. My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story, said Dustfinger at last.
Cornelia Funke
#28. From life to life, from breath to breath, we remember Elinor.
Malinda Lo
#30. First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
Wally Lamb
#31. Me!" returned Elinor in some confusion; "indeed, Marianne, I have nothing to tell."
"Nor I," answered Marianne with energy, "our situations then are alike. We have neither of us anything to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing." (27.17)
Jane Austen
#32. Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...
Jane Austen
#33. Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets.
Firoozeh Dumas
#34. Edward finds Elinor crying for her dead father, offers her his handkerchief and their love story commences. Ang [Lee] very anxious that we think about what we want to do. I'm very anxious not to do anything and certainly not to think about it.
Emma Thompson
#35. If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.
Anita Loos
#36. You know as well as I do, damn you. Like it or not I seem to have grown a heart. I have absolutely no use for the damned thing, but there it sits, demanding Elinor. I can't live without her.
Anne Stuart
#37. Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.
Jane Austen
#38. Convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication.
Jane Austen
#39. Everyone living around this lake thinks I'm crazy, and if we go back to the police with this story, then the news that Elinor Loredan has finally flipped will be all over the place. Which just goes to show that a passion for books is extremely unhealthy.
Cornelia Funke
#40. Elinor was always firmly convinced of other people's hypocrisy since she could not believe that they noticed less than she did.
Mary McCarthy
#41. I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs.
- Elinor
Cornelia Funke
#42. Marianne was vexed at it for her sister's sake, and turned her eyes towards Elinor to see how she bore these attacks, with an earnestness which gave Elinor far more pain than could arise from such common-place raillery as Mrs. Jennings's.
Jane Austen
#43. Wilhelmina swooned. The Dowager was stunned. Andrew punched Nathaniel again. "I should call you out!" He shouted over Nathaniel's prone form. Elinor fled the room.
Elizabeth Johns
#44. The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.
Elinor Wylie
#45. What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.
Elinor Ostrom
#46. Organizing is a process; an organization is the result of that process.
Elinor Ostrom
#47. Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.
Elinor Glyn
#48. Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.
Elinor Lipman
#49. American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.
Elinor Glyn
#50. Whenever anyone suggested that she looked as if she'd been dragged through a hedge backwards, she used to groan loudly and ram in a few more pins until her head was a complete porcupine's back of hairpins!
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
#51. An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me ... And you know, people like happy endings.
Elinor Lipman
#52. Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured.
Elinor Glyn
#53. No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
Elinor Florence
#54. I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.
Elinor Lipman
#55. All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.
Elinor Glyn
#56. The winter will be short, the summer long,
The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot,
Tasting of cider and of scuppernong.
Elinor Wylie
#57. I shall lie folded like a saint,
Lapped in a scented linen sheet,
On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint,
Narrow and cold and neat.
Elinor Wylie
#58. The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world
Elinor Carucci
#59. My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where
I bear a little more than I can bear.
Elinor Wylie
#60. Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels
Elinor Ostrom
#61. It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.
Elinor Fuchs
#62. Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.
Elinor Glyn
#63. If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.
Elinor Wylie
#64. I hadn't known up to that moment that I had a surname that was recognizably Jewish, or that people named Marx would be unwelcome somewhere in the United States because of it.
Elinor Lipman
#65. Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There's a human story at every lighthouse; that's the story I want to tell.
Elinor Dewire
#66. Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn
#67. I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art!
Elinor Wylie
#68. An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.
Elinor Wylie
#69. Morning Glory's introduction to the magical ways of the Goddess, manifest in our time, has enlarged my understanding of Pagan ways, enriching my spirit and imagination.
Elinor Gadon
#70. I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
Elinor Lipman
#71. Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.
Elinor Glyn
#72. I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.
Elinor Glyn
#73. Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.
Elinor Glyn
#74. I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.
Elinor Lipman
#75. How much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.
Elinor Glyn
#76. No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.
Elinor Glyn
#78. Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones
There's something in this richness that I hate.
I love the look, austere, immaculate,
Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.
Elinor Wylie
#80. Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole.
Elinor Gadon
#81. The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.
Elinor Ostrom
#82. In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
Elinor Wylie
#83. To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman.
Elinor Glyn
#84. It was not complicated, and, as my mother pointed out, not even personal: They had a hotel; they didn't want Jews; we were Jews. (The Inn at Lake Devine)
Elinor Lipman
#85. Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.
Elinor Ostrom
#86. It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else.
Elinor Lipman
#87. Perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.
Cornelia Funke
#88. The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.
Elinor Smith
#89. When strawberries go begging, and the sleek
Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak,
We shall live well
we shall live very well.
Elinor Wylie
#91. The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself.
Elinor Glyn
#92. Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.
Elinor Glyn
#93. I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.
Elinor Lipman
#94. I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.
Elinor Glyn
#95. My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.
Elinor Lipman
#96. I was, being human, born alone;
I am, being woman, hard beset;
I live by squeezing from a stone
The little nourishment I get.
Elinor Wylie
#97. As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society.
Elinor Ostrom
#98. Scientific knowledge is as much an understanding of the diversity of situations for which a theory or its models are relevant as an understanding of its limits.
Elinor Ostrom
#99. I am, to my core, Canadian, so, by osmosis, everything I write reflects that upbringing.
Elinor Florence
#100. I love bright words, words up and singing early;
Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing;
Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees;
I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly,
Like midsummer moths, and honied words like bees, Gilded and sticky, with a little sting.
Elinor Wylie
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